In re Carco Electronics’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.3d 211 · 2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2025
4 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Church of Scientology of California v. United States · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc. · United States v. Ryan
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Supreme Court's statement in Cunningham that we should not apply the collateral order doctrine on a 'case-by-case' basis indicates that we should not attempt to carve out individualized, case-specific exceptions to the general rule that discovery orders are not immediately appealable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kell v. Benzon“strong statements” in Supreme Court opinions suggesting that a prior Third Circuit decision was "flawed” but stating that overrul ing that decision "must be left to the wise counsel of the Court en banc”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“final decisions,” which in general are decisions that "completely end[] the litigation and leave[ ] nothing for the court to do but execute its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.